metropolitan borough
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type of local government district in England
Key facts
- Category
- Local authority districts
- Location
- England
- Found in
- Metropolitan county
- Created by
- Local Government Act 1972
- Created
- 1 April 1974
- Number
- 36 (as of 2008)
- Possible status
- City
- Additional status
- Borough
- Populations
- 0.1 – 1.1 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- borough in the United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- Metropolitan boroughs
- topic's main category
- Category:Metropolitan boroughs
- OpenStreetMap tag
- designation=metropolitan_district
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Encyclopedic overview
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts within metropolitan counties. All of the metropolitan districts have been granted or regranted royal charters giving them borough status (and in some cases, they also have city status). Metropolitan boroughs are now a form of unitary authority, due to the abolition of metropolitan county councils by the Local Government Act 1985. Metropolitan boroughs pool much of their authority in joint boards and other arrangements that cover whole metropolitan counties, such as local enterprise partnerships and combined authorities, with most of the latter having a directly elected metropolitan mayor.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “metropolitan borough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.